"I spent 33 years and four months in active military service and during that period I spent most of my time as a high class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers.
In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism.
I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil interests in 1914.
I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in.
I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street.
The record of racketeering is long.
I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912.
I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916.
In China in 1927 I helped to see to it that Standard Oil went on its way unmolested.
During those years, I had, as the boys in the back room would say, a swell racket.
Looking back on it, I feel that I could have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents."
-Major General Smedley D. Butler
War Is a Racket, 1935
@MelanyHamilton_@stacce2021 Che poi, mica ha detto "mo' me sto a incazza come 'na pantera, basta brutti stronzi", no "ho perso la pazienza" come fosse 1h in coda al casello
The list of Heads of State attending the Victory Day Parade in Moscow on May 9th 2025:
🇧🇾 President of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko
🇨🇳 Chairman of the People's Republic of China, Xi Jinping
🇷🇸 President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić
🇦🇲 Prime Minister of Armenia, Nikol Pashinyan
🇰🇿 President of Kazakhstan, Kasym-Jomart Tokaev
🇦�� President of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev
🇸🇰 Prime Minister of Slovakia, Robert Fico
🇵🇸 President of Palestine, Mahmoud Abbas
🇧🇷 President of Brazil, Luis Inacio Lula da Silva
🇰🇬 President of Kyrgyzstan, Sadyr Japarov
🇹🇯 President of Tajikistan, Emomali Rahman
🇻🇳 General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam, That Lam
🇻🇪 President of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro
🇲🇲 President of Myanmar, Min Aung Hlaing
🇲🇳 President of Mongolia, Ukhnaagiin Khürelsükh
🇨🇺 President of Cuba, Miguel Diaz-Canel
🇷🇸 Head of the Republika Srpska, Milorad Dodik
🇧🇫 President of Burkina Faso, Ibrahim Traore
🇺🇿 President of Uzbekistan, Shavkat Miromonovich Mirziyoyev
🇷🇺 President of Abkhazia, Badra Gunba
🇨🇩 President of the Republic of the Congo, Denis Sassou-Nguesso
🇹🇲 President of Turkmenistan, Serdar Berdimuhamedov
🇪🇹 President of Ethiopia, Taye Atske-Selassie
🇷🇺 President of South Ossetia, Alan Gagloev
��🇦 President of Laos, Thongloun Sisoulith
🇪🇬 President of Egypt, Abdul-Fattah Al-Sisi
🇿🇼 President of Zimbabwe, Emmerson Mnangagwa
🇬🇳 President of Guinea-Bissau, Umaru Sisoku Embalo
🇬🇶 President of Equatorial Guinea, Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo
Gaza is being annihilated.
Thousands upon thousands of children are dead. Entire bloodlines erased. And the United States is the supplier, sponsor, and shield of the killing.
Netanyahu is not a defender.
He’s a butcher.
A fascist running from jail who’s building his legacy on mass graves.
Trump is insane .
Biden enabled it all .
Harris went with him.
This isn’t “complicated.”
It’s calculated.
You don’t “accidentally” flatten hospitals, starve cities, bomb refugees in tents or bomb convoys labeled UN. You do that when you know you’ll get away with it. And the U.S. ensures these crimes continue.
Every liberal who says “I don’t support Netanyahu but…” Every progressive who “wishes for peace” but won’t say the word occupation— You’re complicit. You are lubricating the machine of murder with your cowardice.
And don’t dare hide behind antisemitism to justify silence.
Antisemitism is real.
But using it to silence truth while bombs fall on children is a grotesque betrayal of every moral code.
Criticizing a government that carries out war crimes is not hate.
It’s obligation.
And if your politics can’t confront genocide, then your politics are trash:
No more money.
No more bombs.
No more fake neutrality.
No more bipartisan War Inc gorging on profits wrapping themselves in flags .
You are either against genocide. Or you are part of it.
Now pick a side.
Prof. Jeffrey Sachs: The Soviet Union Lost 27 million People Defeating Hitler.
The idea that Europe can't figure out to go and honor the dead and honor that achievement for humanity is terrible.
Terrible.
Because this is something for all of humanity and it was a sacrifice that is indescribable as people know.